{"id":4806,"date":"2021-11-11T14:50:57","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T14:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=4806"},"modified":"2021-11-11T14:51:19","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T14:51:19","slug":"batch-merge-csv-without-duplicate-headers","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/programming\/batch-merge-csv-without-duplicate-headers\/26585.html","title":{"rendered":"Batch Merge CSV Without Duplicate Headers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everyone,<\/p>\n<p>Some background:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; I am completely brand new to DOS batch programming<br \/>\n&#8211; I am trying to batch merge multiple CSV files in a single folder without having the header\/column name\/etc duplicated.<br \/>\n&#8211; Each day, a new CSV file will be added to the folder.<br \/>\n&#8211; This batch would be used each day to create a master CSV with all data in folder.<\/p>\n<p>After spending 2+ hours desperately searching for an answer on this forum, I haven&#8217;t yet found anything that works! While users have posted the exact same question, each user seems to get a difference code. After trying all the codes, I still get duplicate headers in my master file, and sometimes duplicate records!<\/p>\n<p>Here is what I&#8217;m looking for (seems repetitive from other posts, but for clarity&#8217;s sake):<\/p>\n<p>data1.csv:<br \/>\nName Date<br \/>\nSam 8\/12\/11<br \/>\nJohn 7\/15\/11<br \/>\nBob 6\/15\/11<\/p>\n<p>data2.csv<br \/>\nName Date<br \/>\nBilly 7\/14\/10<br \/>\nSara 9\/8\/11<br \/>\nJoey 6\/2\/10<\/p>\n<p>data3.csv<br \/>\nName Date<br \/>\nHank 3\/5\/09<br \/>\nSally 4\/28\/11<br \/>\nGina 1\/2\/11<\/p>\n<p>FinalData.csv<br \/>\nName Date<br \/>\nSam 8\/12\/11<br \/>\nJohn 7\/15\/11<br \/>\nBob 6\/15\/11<br \/>\nBilly 7\/14\/10<br \/>\nSara 9\/8\/11<br \/>\nJoey 6\/2\/10<br \/>\nHank 3\/5\/09<br \/>\nSally 4\/28\/11<br \/>\nGina 1\/2\/11<\/p>\n<p>Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks so much,<br \/>\nKevin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":9},"question-category":[55],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-4806","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-programming"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/4806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=4806"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=4806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}